Asteroid to buzz Earth Sunday

Hm, this is the latest in a string of asteroid fly-by's apparently, and without much coverage. could this be a prelude to a "big one"?
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Asteroid to buzz Earth Sunday
Just in time for April Fools' Day, but it's no joke and is size of passenger jet

An asteroid the size of a passenger jet will zoom close by Earth on Sunday just in time for April Fools' Day, but it has no chance of hitting the
Earth, NASA says.

...and if it did make impact...I would think most of it would disintegrate upon it's entry in the atmosphere and anything that did make it through
would probably make a pretty neat little fizzly splash in the ocean.

Perhaps it is just me(as I haven't really done any digging into the subject) but it does seem that we are detecting a larger number of these NEOs
just short of their fly-by times. Have we just been missing them due to insufficient detection? Or maybe there are more objects being directed towards
the Earth?

I honestly know nothing of the subject, just looking for an explanation of sorts.

I need a picture to confirm this "story," more simply, -an animation, as posted by MSNBC, will not cut it as definitive proof of such object. I could
add an asteroid to their program (no proof needed) and have it pass as real, even if its not. People buy into "doomsday scenario" all too easily in
this day of age.

Have you seen the movie Armageddon? There is a line by Billy Bob Thorton who plays Dan Truman from NASA:

President: What is this thing?
Truman: It's an asteroid, sir.
President: How big are we talking?
Scientist: Sir, our best estimate is 97.6 billion-
Truman: It's the size of Texas, Mr. President.
President: Dan, we didn't see this thing coming?
Truman: Well, our object collision budget's about a million dollars a year. That allows us to track about three percent of the sky, and begging
your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky.
Gen. Kimsey: And the ones this morning?
Truman: Uh, those were nothing. Those were the size of basketballs and Volkswagons, things like that.

Perhaps it is just me(as I haven't really done any digging into the subject) but it does seem that we are detecting a larger number of these NEOs
just short of their fly-by times. Have we just been missing them due to insufficient detection? Or maybe there are more objects being directed towards
the Earth?

Astronomers are detecting NEO's all the time......every so often one of them will hit Earth.

One was detected in 2006, barely 24 hours before it struck the desert in Nevada.

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